Windows 7 is just a servicepack and some graphical changes to Windows Vista. Its still horribly incompatible with older applications, has very bad support for older hardware like printers and scanners and are a real resource pig. Frankly, Vista/Windows 7 still sucks just as bad despite the name change.
I call bullshit on this post. Maybe it's a service pack, maybe not - but the incompatibility scare is complete baloney. I've tested Win7 extensively with some of our oldest apps, and have yet to encounter a single issue (one exception: some webpages need "compatibility mode" in IE8, but that's not the OS). Win7 finally makes ReadyBoost and the new caching algorithm (Hypercache? I forget the name) really shine, and work as they were intended.
If you have a working computer at home with XP there arent any reason whatsoever to install Windows 7. The benefits just doesnt exist.
I couldn't agree less. I'm extraordinarily happy with how Win7 is performing on my systems, both at home and at work. I think anyone who isn't seeing benefits is either not looking for them, actively avoiding them, or running an underpowered system anyway.
I will say this - if you're running it with less than 2gb of memory, you might have issues. But frankly, I wouldn't run XP on a machine with less than 1gb, and with the improvements seen with 7, I think an additional gig of memory is a small price to pay.
While I hate "Me too" posts as much as the next guy, I have to agree that this article is FUD for the management types. I installed 7 RTM as soon as it was available from TechNet, and haven't had problem one yet.
Well, I have one problem - it doesn't seem to connect to Windows 2000 Server shares, and it doesn't like my (very outdated) Samba network. Apparently it requires Samba 3.3 or higher. However, that aside, I have to say my existing PCs (original P4 3ghz, 3gb or 4gb memory) are noticeably snappier than they were with XP - granted, some of that may have been the accumulation of crud that happens with any windows installation. Clean installs are always speed-boosters.
Speaking of which - yeah, don't bother with an upgrade. With as cheap as USB drives (even USB HDs, not just flash) are these days, you have no real excuse for not doing a clean install. I'll be deploying Windows 7 starting in April to the 500+ workstations at my company, and every install will be a wipe & reinstall using Acronis TrueImage with a nice sysprep'ed image. All of the testing I've done so far has made me a happy camper and Win7 evangelist.
Prior releases... yeah, waiting for SP1 was always a good idea. Hell, we waited for XP SP2 before deploying it. I really think they've finally gotten this thing right.
1.) SQL 2005 and SQL 2008 both have known compatibility issues. SQL 2005 will ALWAYS fail an upgrade to SP3 under Win 7 without a reg hack.
I have been able to install SP3 for SQL 2005 on exactly one (of 5) Windows 2003/2003R2 servers. That one success was a clean, fresh install that had nothing else on it. Every other system STILL fails to install SP3, after the 3rd (or 4th?) release of SP3. I don't blame that on the OS, I blame it on the patch. Or maybe on SQL 2005 itself, I don't know. But it isn't specific to Win7, at any rate.
These are just a few of the images we've recorded. And you can see, it wasn't what we thought. There's been no war here and no terraforming event. The environment is stable. It's the Pax.
While I use FreeBSD for this trick, it can probably be done with Linux as well.
Throw Snort on the machine, and when you're ready to start scanning traffic, remove the IP assignment to the NIC. Snort will throw it into promiscuous mode, so it will examine all traffic coming in - but it won't have an address, meaning it's essentially invulnerable to attack.
At work, my dedicated IDS system has two nics - one on the "Public" internet, with no IP, and one behind the firewall with an IP that I use to update definitions & such. Pretty secure way of monitoring traffic on the nic that has no IP.
Why? Is there a limit to the number of decimal places you're allowed to use where you're from? The limit to precision isn't due to the units used, it's due to the tool used to measure the temp.
When expressed as an integer (temperature frequently is when talking about weather), Fahrenheit is a more precise unit.
It really helps if you read the first part of a sentence before bitching about the second part.
You might try googling "Jonathan Coulton" someday. Seriously. Ever hear of the short-lived TV show "Code Monkeys"? His song was used as the theme. AFTER he released it with a Creative Commons license.
Hey woman, your fine Solar Power, brand-new and expensive, should have been saved for the poor. Why has it been wasted? We could've raised maybe 300 silver pieces or more. People who are hungry, people who are starving, they matter more than your electrical power generation.
I found their garbage on my site yesterday. It's not a high-volume site, but it sure as hell isn't abandoned. And after all this apologizing, one of the students still has the complete list of wikis they used available on his student page. This was a serious case of lack of oversight and/or bad judgment.
And then there's Isaac Asimov's "Blow Up" about massive nuclear plants that use fusion to generate heat/electricity - that too is a real world technology that's theoretically possible.
I'm not sure, but you may be thinking of a different Heinlein story, "Blowups Happen", about a massive breeder reactor that's used to create nuclear fuel for normal reactors.
Put together some kind of computer-drive laser etching device that can imprint onto rock or hardened steel, at a fairly high bit-rate, and etch the important stuff onto something that's not going to degrade for a thousand years. Plus, anybody with a microscope and a pen & paper can read back the data and transcode it into any future format that might evolve. The Rosetta Stone of the future.
You know, I always wanted to implement a VAX processor on an FPGA. Or better yet (but impossibly expensive), a real, 45nm, full-out printed die.
I used to collect VAXen. They were powerful boxes for their day. And yes, I/did/ have a Beowulf cluster of them - 8 VAXStation 3100s, a VAXStation 4000/60, and a MicroVAX 4000/200. NetBSD ran great on them. But with modern, fast processors with tons of memory... muahahaha.....
But seriously - take all those poor legacy folks out there who still have VAXen in business use (yes, there really are some still in use) and give them a new CPU card to drop into the cage. Would be a thing of beauty. Replace memory cards with banks of DIMMs with appropriate QBUS (or what have you) glue/emulation.
Yes, I know I'm weird. I already told you I collected VAXen.
You've got it backwards, but your heart was in the right place. Due to the fact that the sun is MUCH larger than this 12,000km shield, the shadow will actually get smaller as it gets closer to the sun.
Fired up my TechNet Plus subscription and downloaded (or, that is, am slowly downloading) build 7000. Whilst perusing the release notes, I happened across a warning - if Media Player touches your MP3 files, it will PERMANENTLY ERASE the first several seconds of them. All of them. Automatically.
The concept of "local power" was first advocated by... Thomas Edison. He was advocating small power stations all around a municipality for local distribution via his DC-based systems.
Westinghouse's AC system, however, allowed for transmission of power great distances. Despite using his name, and some patents, most of what we use today owes more to Westinghouse than Edison.
Just for clarity (and to shake my fist at Schoolhouse Rock), if you're going to refer to Edison's DC, then you should refer to Tesla's AC (not Westinghouse's). And the only reason Edison "advocated small power stations all around a municipality" was because that's the only way his baby, DC, would work. DC just doesn't travel well.
I salute you, sir, and thank you for your service. And for your clear thinking in this quagmire of punditry.
To expand on the "apples v. nukes" comparison, let's not forget that the Revolutionary Armies were fighting on home turf - while the British were a long way from home, with long supply lines, and were involved with half a dozen or more other conflicts at the same time. If they had been able to focus solely on us, we would still be the Queen's subjects.
Modern revolutionaries might also be fighting from home turf - but the advantage is lost, because so is the Army.
Let's not even start talking about air superiority.
I know exactly what you mean. For about a year, I used a cracked copy of Spacial Audio's SAM Broadcaster to DJ over the internet. It did the job I needed it to, but it never really left me feeling right. This summer, I paid off a loan that left me with actual/disposable/ income for the first time in my adult life, and one of the first things I did was plop down $279 for a legal copy. Not because I needed the upgrade, I could have swiped it too - but because I wanted to support the work they did. I love this program. And I/do/ feel better now - I can't really explain it, but, I do.
Of course, then there's my music library. I don't feel any remorse about screwing the RIAA. I'll support the artists by paying for concerts & such.
Yeah, so I'm a hypocrite. It's taken you this long to figure that out?
Then have a wildcard responder that takes ANY mispelled ".com" name that's actually typed with ".con" and sends it to exploit installing sites. Holy crap - would make the storm worm look like a gentle breeze worm.
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You missed Windows 2000, which is actually where they merged the NT kernel.
Windows 7 is just a servicepack and some graphical changes to Windows Vista. Its still horribly incompatible with older applications, has very bad support for older hardware like printers and scanners and are a real resource pig. Frankly, Vista/Windows 7 still sucks just as bad despite the name change.
I call bullshit on this post. Maybe it's a service pack, maybe not - but the incompatibility scare is complete baloney. I've tested Win7 extensively with some of our oldest apps, and have yet to encounter a single issue (one exception: some webpages need "compatibility mode" in IE8, but that's not the OS). Win7 finally makes ReadyBoost and the new caching algorithm (Hypercache? I forget the name) really shine, and work as they were intended.
If you have a working computer at home with XP there arent any reason whatsoever to install Windows 7. The benefits just doesnt exist.
I couldn't agree less. I'm extraordinarily happy with how Win7 is performing on my systems, both at home and at work. I think anyone who isn't seeing benefits is either not looking for them, actively avoiding them, or running an underpowered system anyway.
I will say this - if you're running it with less than 2gb of memory, you might have issues. But frankly, I wouldn't run XP on a machine with less than 1gb, and with the improvements seen with 7, I think an additional gig of memory is a small price to pay.
While I hate "Me too" posts as much as the next guy, I have to agree that this article is FUD for the management types. I installed 7 RTM as soon as it was available from TechNet, and haven't had problem one yet.
Well, I have one problem - it doesn't seem to connect to Windows 2000 Server shares, and it doesn't like my (very outdated) Samba network. Apparently it requires Samba 3.3 or higher. However, that aside, I have to say my existing PCs (original P4 3ghz, 3gb or 4gb memory) are noticeably snappier than they were with XP - granted, some of that may have been the accumulation of crud that happens with any windows installation. Clean installs are always speed-boosters.
Speaking of which - yeah, don't bother with an upgrade. With as cheap as USB drives (even USB HDs, not just flash) are these days, you have no real excuse for not doing a clean install. I'll be deploying Windows 7 starting in April to the 500+ workstations at my company, and every install will be a wipe & reinstall using Acronis TrueImage with a nice sysprep'ed image. All of the testing I've done so far has made me a happy camper and Win7 evangelist.
Prior releases... yeah, waiting for SP1 was always a good idea. Hell, we waited for XP SP2 before deploying it. I really think they've finally gotten this thing right.
But of course, I could be wrong.
1.) SQL 2005 and SQL 2008 both have known compatibility issues. SQL 2005 will ALWAYS fail an upgrade to SP3 under Win 7 without a reg hack.
I have been able to install SP3 for SQL 2005 on exactly one (of 5) Windows 2003/2003R2 servers. That one success was a clean, fresh install that had nothing else on it. Every other system STILL fails to install SP3, after the 3rd (or 4th?) release of SP3. I don't blame that on the OS, I blame it on the patch. Or maybe on SQL 2005 itself, I don't know. But it isn't specific to Win7, at any rate.
These are just a few of the images we've recorded. And you can see, it wasn't what we thought. There's been no war here and no terraforming event. The environment is stable. It's the Pax.
Tin-foil hat wiki:
TWA Flight 800: A civilian airliner shot down by the US Navy.
9/11: The attacks carried out on the United States in 2001 by agents of the Mossad with the backing of the GWB administration.
Wi-Fi: A wireless communications system that is known to cause brain cancer and other neurological disorders.
You obviously aren't familiar with this site.
While I use FreeBSD for this trick, it can probably be done with Linux as well.
Throw Snort on the machine, and when you're ready to start scanning traffic, remove the IP assignment to the NIC. Snort will throw it into promiscuous mode, so it will examine all traffic coming in - but it won't have an address, meaning it's essentially invulnerable to attack.
At work, my dedicated IDS system has two nics - one on the "Public" internet, with no IP, and one behind the firewall with an IP that I use to update definitions & such. Pretty secure way of monitoring traffic on the nic that has no IP.
The same way you know there's air around you, dipshit.
only $71,428.57 each ... that ain't much of a prize.
That'd pay off my house, with a little to spare for new windows. I call that much of a prize.
Fahrenheit is a more precise unit
Why? Is there a limit to the number of decimal places you're allowed to use where you're from? The limit to precision isn't due to the units used, it's due to the tool used to measure the temp.
When expressed as an integer (temperature frequently is when talking about weather), Fahrenheit is a more precise unit.
It really helps if you read the first part of a sentence before bitching about the second part.
You might try googling "Jonathan Coulton" someday. Seriously. Ever hear of the short-lived TV show "Code Monkeys"? His song was used as the theme. AFTER he released it with a Creative Commons license.
Hey woman, your fine Solar Power, brand-new and expensive, should have been saved for the poor. Why has it been wasted? We could've raised maybe 300 silver pieces or more. People who are hungry, people who are starving, they matter more than your electrical power generation.
With apologies to Andrew Lloyd Webber
I found their garbage on my site yesterday. It's not a high-volume site, but it sure as hell isn't abandoned. And after all this apologizing, one of the students still has the complete list of wikis they used available on his student page. This was a serious case of lack of oversight and/or bad judgment.
And then there's Isaac Asimov's "Blow Up" about massive nuclear plants that use fusion to generate heat/electricity - that too is a real world technology that's theoretically possible.
I'm not sure, but you may be thinking of a different Heinlein story, "Blowups Happen", about a massive breeder reactor that's used to create nuclear fuel for normal reactors.
Then again, I never read much Asimov.
Put together some kind of computer-drive laser etching device that can imprint onto rock or hardened steel, at a fairly high bit-rate, and etch the important stuff onto something that's not going to degrade for a thousand years. Plus, anybody with a microscope and a pen & paper can read back the data and transcode it into any future format that might evolve. The Rosetta Stone of the future.
You know, I always wanted to implement a VAX processor on an FPGA. Or better yet (but impossibly expensive), a real, 45nm, full-out printed die.
I used to collect VAXen. They were powerful boxes for their day. And yes, I /did/ have a Beowulf cluster of them - 8 VAXStation 3100s, a VAXStation 4000/60, and a MicroVAX 4000/200. NetBSD ran great on them. But with modern, fast processors with tons of memory... muahahaha.....
But seriously - take all those poor legacy folks out there who still have VAXen in business use (yes, there really are some still in use) and give them a new CPU card to drop into the cage. Would be a thing of beauty. Replace memory cards with banks of DIMMs with appropriate QBUS (or what have you) glue/emulation.
Yes, I know I'm weird. I already told you I collected VAXen.
ThreeMile, Valdez, Congress, HyattKC, PruitIgoe (ok, a little local, look it up). Damn, there were more, but I can't remember them anymore.
You've got it backwards, but your heart was in the right place. Due to the fact that the sun is MUCH larger than this 12,000km shield, the shadow will actually get smaller as it gets closer to the sun.
Fired up my TechNet Plus subscription and downloaded (or, that is, am slowly downloading) build 7000. Whilst perusing the release notes, I happened across a warning - if Media Player touches your MP3 files, it will PERMANENTLY ERASE the first several seconds of them. All of them. Automatically.
Seriously. WTF?
The concept of "local power" was first advocated by... Thomas Edison. He was advocating small power stations all around a municipality for local distribution via his DC-based systems.
Westinghouse's AC system, however, allowed for transmission of power great distances. Despite using his name, and some patents, most of what we use today owes more to Westinghouse than Edison.
Just for clarity (and to shake my fist at Schoolhouse Rock), if you're going to refer to Edison's DC, then you should refer to Tesla's AC (not Westinghouse's). And the only reason Edison "advocated small power stations all around a municipality" was because that's the only way his baby, DC, would work. DC just doesn't travel well.
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I salute you, sir, and thank you for your service. And for your clear thinking in this quagmire of punditry.
To expand on the "apples v. nukes" comparison, let's not forget that the Revolutionary Armies were fighting on home turf - while the British were a long way from home, with long supply lines, and were involved with half a dozen or more other conflicts at the same time. If they had been able to focus solely on us, we would still be the Queen's subjects.
Modern revolutionaries might also be fighting from home turf - but the advantage is lost, because so is the Army.
Let's not even start talking about air superiority.
"Windows Cloud is a separate project from Windows 7, the operating system that Microsoft is developing to succeed Windows Vista."
If it's the slightest bit better than its predecessor, I think it'll be better described as the OS that FAILS Windows Vista. Once and for all.
I know exactly what you mean. For about a year, I used a cracked copy of Spacial Audio's SAM Broadcaster to DJ over the internet. It did the job I needed it to, but it never really left me feeling right. This summer, I paid off a loan that left me with actual /disposable/ income for the first time in my adult life, and one of the first things I did was plop down $279 for a legal copy. Not because I needed the upgrade, I could have swiped it too - but because I wanted to support the work they did. I love this program. And I /do/ feel better now - I can't really explain it, but, I do.
Of course, then there's my music library. I don't feel any remorse about screwing the RIAA. I'll support the artists by paying for concerts & such.
Yeah, so I'm a hypocrite. It's taken you this long to figure that out?
Then have a wildcard responder that takes ANY mispelled ".com" name that's actually typed with ".con" and sends it to exploit installing sites. Holy crap - would make the storm worm look like a gentle breeze worm.